Davina McCall says she didn't wax to show her daughters 'what they had was normal'
'I didn't want them thinking they were disgusting because they had pubes,' recalls TV presenter
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Your support makes all the difference.Davina McCall has spoken about how she normalised body hair for her daughters when they were growing up, revealing she didn’t remove any of her own in order to show them “what they had was normal”.
The TV presenter has two daughters, Holly, 18, and Tilly, 16, and one son, Chester, 13, with her ex-husband Matthew Robertson.
Now, speaking on the Women’s Health podcast, “Going For Goal”, McCall explained that she was eager to talk to her daughters about pubic hair when they were going through puberty.
“Even down to waxing my privates, when they were going through puberty and, therefore, their bodies were changing, I kept everything there bar, like, a bikini wax, just to show them what they had was normal, because mummy's got it too,” the 52-year-old said.
"Obviously now they can do what they like, they're 16 and 18, but when they were little - 12, 13, 14 - I didn't want them thinking they were disgusting because they had pubes."
The former Big Brother host went on to talk about how her own body has changed in recent years.
“I'm not all pert and tight like I was when I was 20,” she said.
"If I lean over... my skin sags down at the middle, the front, but I feel like I am the best version that I can be for my age, and that gives me confidence. You can wear your body well if you've got confidence.
“How attractive you are is entirely based on you feel about yourself, and if I could tell my 20-year-old self that - and really explain it - I think it would have changed my life... I was very vulnerable and fragile, and the voice in my head was so loud and so negative, all the time.
"Now I wake up in the morning and I think I look like a supermodel. I walk around my bedroom naked saying 'yeah check you out'!"
You can listen to the full interview here.
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